Chapter 4 - Web Design

Copyright © Terry Felke-Morris
WEB DEVELOPMENT & DESIGN
FOUNDATIONS WITH HTML5
Chapter 4
Key Concepts
1Copyright © Terry Felke-Morris

LEARNING OUTCOMES
 In this chapter, you will learn how to ...
 Create and format lines and borders on web pages
 Apply the image element to add graphics to web pages
 Optimize an image for web page display
 Configure images as backgrounds on web pages
 Configure images as hyperlinks
 Configure visual effects with CSS3 including multiple background images,
rounded corners, box shadow, text shadow, opacity, and gradients
 Configure RGBA color with CSS3
 Use HTML5 elements to caption a figure
 Use the HTML5 meter and progress elements
 Find free and fee-based graphics sources
 Follow recommended web design guidelines for graphics on web pages
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HORIZONTAL RULE ELEMENT
 Configures a horizontal line
 XHTML Syntax:
<hr />
 HTML5 Syntax:
<hr>
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CSS BORDER PROPERTY
 Configures a border on the top, right, bottom, and
left sides of an element
 Consists of
 border-width
 border-style
 border-color
h2 { border: 2px solid #ff0000 }

CSS BORDERS:
BLOCK / INLINE ELEMENTS
Block display element
◦ default width of element content extends to browser
margin (or specified width)
Inline display element
◦ Border closely outlines the element content
h2 { border: 2px solid #ff0000; }
a { border: 2px solid #ff0000; }

BROWSER DISPLAY CAN VARY

CONFIGURING SPECIFIC
SIDES OF A BORDER
 Use CSS to configure a line on one or more sides
of an element
 border-bottom
 border-left
 border-right
 border-top
h2 { border-bottom: 2px solid #ff0000 }

CSS PADDING PROPERTY
 Configures empty space between the content of
the HTML element and the border
 Set to 0px by default
h2 { border: 2px solid #ff0000;
padding: 5px; }
No padding property configured:

CONFIGURE PADDING ON
SPECIFIC SIDES OF AN ELEMENT
 Use CSS to configure padding on one or more
sides of an element
 padding-bottom
 padding-left
 padding-right
 padding-top
background-color: #cccccc;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 10px; }

CSS PADDING PROPERTY SHORTHAND:
TWOVALUES
 Two numeric values or percentages
 first value configures top and bottom padding
 the second value configures left and right padding
padding: 20px 10px;
}

Four numeric values or percentages
◦ Configure top, right, bottom, and left padding
width: 250px;
padding: 30px 10px 5px 20px;
}
CSS PADDING PROPERTY SHORTHAND:
FOURVALUES

HANDS-ON PRACTICE
h1 { background-color:#191970;
color:#E6E6FA;
padding: 15px;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; }
h2 { background-color:#AEAED4;
color:#191970;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
border-bottom: 2px dashed #191970; }

CHECKPOINT 4.1
1. Is it reasonable to try to code a web page that looks exactly
the same on every browser and every platform? Explain your
answer.
2. When a web page containing the style rules below is
rendered in a browser, the border does not display.
Describe what is incorrect with the following code:
h2 { background-color: #ff0000
border-top: thin solid #000000
}
3. True or False? CSS can be used to configure visual elements
such as rectangular shapes and lines on web pages.
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TYPES OF
GRAPHICS
 Graphic types commonly used on
web pages:
 GIF
 JPG
 PNG
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GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
Best used for line art and logos
Maximum of 256 colors
One color can be configured as transparent
Can be animated
Uses lossless compression
Can be interlaced
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Background
color – no
transparency
Background
color
configured to
be transparent

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Best used for photographs
Up to 16.7 million colors
Use lossy compression
Cannot be animated
Cannot be made
transparent
Progressive JPEG – similar to interlaced
display
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PNG
 Portable Network Graphic
 Support millions of colors
 Support multiple levels of transparency
(but browsers do not --
so limit to one transparent color forWeb display)
 Support interlacing
 Use lossless compression
 Combines the best of GIF & JPEG
 Browser support is growing
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HTML IMAGE ELEMENT
Configures graphics on a web page
src Attribute
◦ File name of the graphic
alt Attribute
◦ Configures alternate text content (description)
height Attribute
◦ Height of the graphic in pixels
width Attribute
◦ Width of the graphic in pixels
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<img src=“cake.gif” alt=“birthday cake” height=“100” width=“100”>

ACCESSIBILITY & IMAGES
 Required:
 Configure the alt attribute
 Alternate text content to convey the
meaning/intent of the image
 NOT the file name of the image
 Use alt="“ for purely decorative images
 Recommended:
 If your site navigation uses image links for the main navigation,
provide simple text links at the bottom of the page.

IMAGE LINKS
To create an image hyperlink use an anchor
element to contain an image element
Browsers automatically add a border to image links.
Configure CSS to eliminate the border
img {border-style:none; }
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Home
<a href="index.html"><img src="home.gif"
height="19" width="85" alt="Home"></a>

THUMBNAIL IMAGE
A small image configured to link to a larger version of that
image.
<a href=“big.jpg”><img src=“small.jpg” alt=“country
road” width=“200” height=“100”></a>
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IMAGE OPTIMIZATION
 The process of creating an image
with the lowest file size that still
renders a good quality image—
balancing image quality and file size.
 Photographs taken with
digital cameras are
not usually optimized for the Web
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OPTIMIZE AN IMAGE FOR THE WEB
 Image Optimization
 Reduce the file size of the image
 Reduce the dimensions of the image to the actual width
and height of the image on the web page.
 Image Editing Tools:
 GIMP (free!)
 Adobe Fireworks
 Adobe Photoshop
 http://pixlr.com/editor (free!)
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CHOOSING NAMES FOR IMAGE FILES
 Use all lowercase letters
 Do not use punctuation symbols and spaces
 Do not change the file extensions
(should be .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, or .png)
 Keep your file names short but descriptive
 i1.gif is probably too short
 myimagewithmydogonmybirthday.gif is too long
 dogbday.gif may be just about right

ORGANIZING
YOUR SITE
<img src=“images/home.gif” alt=“Home”
height=“100” width=“200”>
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• Place images in
their own folder
• Code the path to
the file in the src
atttribute

HTML5 FIGURE AND FIGCAPTION ELEMENTS
Figure Element: contains a unit of content that is self-
contained, such as an image, along with one optional figcaption
element.
<figure>
<img src="lighthouseisland.jpg" width="250"
height="355"
alt="Lighthouse Island">
<figcaption>
Island Lighthouse, Built in 1870
</figcaption>
</figure>

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HTML5 METER ELEMENT
Displays a visual gauge of a numeric value within a known range
<meter value="14417" min="0" max="14417">14417</meter>14,417 Total Visits 
<meter value="7000" min="0" max="14417">7000</meter> 7,000 Firefox 
<meter value="3800" min="0" max="14417">3800</meter> 3,800 Internet Explorer 
<meter value="2062" min="0" max="14417">2062</meter> 2,062 Chrome 
<meter value="1043" min="0" max="14417">1043</meter> 1,043 Safari 
<meter value="312" min="0" max="14417">312</meter>    312 Opera 
<meter value="200" min="0" max="14417">200</meter>    200 other 

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HTML5 PROGRESS ELEMENT
Displays a bar that depicts a numeric value within
a specified range
<progress value="5000" max="10000">5000</progress>
Progress Towards Our Goal
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CSS BACKGROUND-IMAGE
PROPERTY
 Configures a background-image
 By default, background images tile (repeat)
body { background-image: url(background1.gif); }

CSS BACKGROUND-REPEAT PROPERTY

USING BACKGROUND-REPEAT
h2 { background-color: #d5edb3;
color: #5c743d;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
padding-left: 30px;
background-image: url(trilliumbullet.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
trilliumbullet.gif:

CSS3 MULTIPLE BACKGROUND IMAGES
body { background-color: #f4ffe4;
color: #333333;
background-image: url(trilliumgradient.png);
background: url(trilliumfoot.gif)
no-repeat bottom right,
url(trilliumgradient.png); }
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CHECKPOINT 4.2
1. Describe the CSS to configure a graphic named circle.jpg to
display once in the background of all <h1> elements. Code
sample CSS to demonstrate this.
2. Describe the CSS that configures a file named bg.gif to repeat
vertically down the background of a web page. Code sample
CSS to demonstrate this.
3. Explain how the browser will render the web page if you use
CSS to configure both a background image and a
background color.
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MORE ABOUT IMAGES
 Image Map
 Favorites Icon
 CSS Sprites
 Sources for Graphics
 Guidelines for Using Images
 Accessibility &Visual Elements

IMAGE MAP
 map element
 Defines the map
 area element
 Defines a specific area on a map
 Can be set to a rectangle, circle, or polygon
 href Attibute
 shape Attribute
 coords Attribute
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<map name="boat" id="boat">
<area href="http://www.doorcountyvacations.com" shape="rect"
coords="24, 188, 339, 283" alt="Door County Fishing">
</map>
<img src="fishingboat.jpg" usemap="#boat" alt="Door County“
width="416" height="350">

FAVORITES ICON - FAVICON
 A square image
associated
with a Web
page
 Usually named:
favicon.ico
 May display in the browser address bar, tab, or
favorites/bookmarks list
 Configure with a link tag:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

CSS SPRITES
 Sprite –
 an image file that contains multiple small graphics that are
configured as background images for various web page elements
 Modern technique to optimize use of multiple icon
or small images
 Saves overhead by reducing the number of http
requests made by the browser.
 You’ll use CSS Sprites in Chapter 7!
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SOURCES FOR GRAPHICS
 Create them yourself using a graphics application:
◦ GIMP
◦ Adobe Photoshop
◦ Adobe Fireworks
◦ Google’s Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/)
 Download graphics from a free site
 Purchase/download professional-quality graphics
 Purchase a graphics collection on a CD
 Take digital photographs
 Scan your photographs
 Scan your drawings
 Hire a graphic designer to create graphics
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GUIDELINES FOR USING IMAGES
 Reuse images
 Consider image file size with image quality
 Consider image load time
 Use appropriate resolution
 Specify dimensions
 Be aware of brightness and contrast
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IMAGES AND ACCESSIBILITY
 Don't rely on color alone.
 Some visitors may have color perception deficiencies. Use high
contrast between background and text color.
 Provide a text equivalent for non-text elements.
 Use the alt attribute on your image elements
 If your site navigation uses image links, provide
simple text links at the bottom of the page.
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CHECKPOINT 4.3
Search for a site that uses image links to provide
navigation. List the URL of the page.
What colors are used on the image links?
If the image links contain text, is there good contrast between
the background color and letters on the image links?
Would the page be accessible to a visitor who is sight-
challenged?
How have accessibility issues been addressed?
Is the alt attribute used to describe the image link?
Is there a row of text links in the footer section of the page?
Answer the questions above and discuss your findings.
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CSS3 ROUNDED CORNERS
 border-radius property
 Configures the horizontal radius and vertical radius of the corner
 Numeric value(s) with unit (pixel or em) or percentage
 Browser vendor proprietary properties:
 -webkit-border-radius (for Safari & Chrome)
 -moz-border-radius (for Firefox)
 border-radius (W3C syntax)
 Example
h1 { -webkit-border-radius: 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
border-radius: 15px;
}
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EXAMPLES OF ROUNDED CORNERS
 One value for border-radius configures all four corners
Example:
border-radius: 15px;
 Four values for border-radius configure each corner separately
Ordered by top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left
Example:
border-radius: 15px 30px 100px 5px;
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CSS3 BOX-SHADOW PROPERTY
 Configure the horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur radius,
and valid color value
 Example:
#wrapper { -webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #828282;
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #828282;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #828282;}
Optional keyword: inset
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CSS3 TEXT-SHADOW PROPERTY
 Configure the horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur radius,
 Example:
#wrapper { text-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #666; }
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CSS3 OPACITY PROPERTY
 Configure the opacity of the background color
 Opacity range:
 0 Completely Transparent
 1 Completely Opaque
horizontal offset,
vertical offset, blur radius,
 Example:
h1{ background-color: #FFFFFF;
opacity: 0.6; }
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RGBA COLOR
Four values are required:
red color, green color, blue color, and alpha(transparency)
 The values for red, green, and blue
must be decimal values from 0 to 255.
 The alpha value must be a number between 0 (transparent) and 1
(opaque).
Example:
h1 { color: #ffffff;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);
font-size: 5em; padding-right: 10px;
text-align: right;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
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CSS3 GRADIENTS
 Gradient: a smooth blending of shades from one color to another
 Use the background-image property
 linear-gradient()
 radial-gradient()
 Example:
background-color: #8FA5CE;
background-image:
-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#FFFFFF), to(#8FA5CE));
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #8FA5CE);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient
(startColorstr=#FFFFFFFF, endColorstr=#FF8FA5CE);
linear-gradient(#FFFFFF, #8FA5CE);
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SUMMARY
This chapter introduced the use of visual elements and
graphics on web pages.
As you continue to create web pages, look back at the
guidelines and accessibility issues related to graphics.
The number one reason for visitors to leave web pages
is too long of a download time. When using images, be
careful to minimize this issue.
Provide alternatives to images (such as text links) and
use the alt attribute on your pages.
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